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Activism
Redefine
She Helped Save Her Town. Then She Finished High School.
Activist Erica Fernandez mobilized a community to oppose a gas pipeline while still in her mid-teens.
Post date:Activist Erica Fernandez mobilized a community to oppose a gas pipeline while still in her mid-teens.
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Activism
Redefine
Cathrine Sneed: Helping San Franciscans Grow Their Own Future
Post date:Faced with an epidemic of incarceration, Sneed inspired the community to reinvent itself in the garden.
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environmental justice
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Racist Emails Raise Doubts over Toxics Agency's Management
Post date:The emails were sent over several years by two senior agency scientists working on toxic contamination in communities of color.
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Where We Are
History & Society
I've Got You Under My Skin: Smog and Modern Memory
Post date:Wednesday was a good day. I drank in the bright air of that afternoon and thought that it was a better day than I had known before. But not good enough.
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environmental justice
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Report: Inaction Way More Expensive Than Fixing Salton Sea
Post date:A new report says that despite the daunting price tag fixing the Salton Sea, doing nothing could cost at least $10 billion more, and perhaps $50 billion.
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environmental justice
Departures
Making Health Happen in South L.A.
Post date:South L.A. residents are increasingly vulnerable to a number of negative health outcomes due to high levels of pollution from traffic emissions and oil extraction sites in close proximity to homes, schools, parks, and healthcare facilities.
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green justice
History & Society
Draft Legislation for San Gabriel National Recreation Area to Promote Health and Environmental Justice
Post date:The San Gabriels provide over 70% of L.A. County's open space and host over 3 million visitors a year, and the proposed national recreation area would serve 17 million people within an hour's drive of the mountains.
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Redefine
Martin Luther King, Social Justice, and Streetscape Environmentalism
Post date:Martin Luther King believed that if we fused social and environmental justice we'd build a more perfect union. Let's get to work.
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Los Angeles
SoCal Connected
Up in the Air: The Fight for Clean Air in Boyle Heights
Post date:Boyle Heights is surrounded by factories, railroads and some of the busiest freeways in the U.S. Now residents are trying to stop the pollution.
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laws that shaped l.a.
History & Society
How Los Angeles Began to Put its Smoggy Days Behind
Post date:If you think smog in Los Angeles is bad now, imagine how suffocating it was before the Clean Air Act of 1970.
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Redefine
Blowing Smoke: The GOP, President Obama, and the EPA
Post date:Having just gutted its clean-air protections, President Obama insists he unwaveringly supports for the EPA's mission. But he has a funny way of showing it, undercutting the public's health.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Environmental SmackDown: Green Politics in the 2012 Presidential Campaign
Post date:Can President Obama use the environment as a wedge issue in the 2012 campaign? Here's how he might.
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robert garcia
Departures
Robert Garcia
Post date:Robert Garcia, Executive Director of The City Project, discussing park space, urban development, and its relation to communities of color.
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environmental justice
Departures
Robert Garcia: One Acre of History Forgotten
Post date:We sat down with Robert Garcia at the controversial site of Padre Serra's Park in front of Union Station to discuss the forgotten history of L.A.'s Chinatown and the importance of creating monuments that celebrate Los Angeles' ethnic past.